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Kapatid compared the bail amount to the P300,000 ($5,371.50) bail posted by former first lady Imelda Marcos after she was convicted by the Sandiganbayan for using her government position to maintain Swiss bank accounts while her husband was in office.
“Nothing now stands in the way of freedom for Reina Mae Nasino, Alma Moran and Ram Carlo Bautista after nearly three years in jail for an offense they did not commit because it was a pure police invention.”
“The appalling inhumanity of the State does not end with their gruesome, extrajudicial killings: they continue to deny the remains of their victims from death to funeral while putting their families to the torturous experience and misery of having to beg on their knees for the remains of their own loved ones.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL MANILA – Victimized twice over. This is how Cristina Palabay, secretary general of Karapatan described the plight of families of four individuals who were killed in what is now known as Bloody Sunday. It took four days before police and military finally re...
Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → February → 1 → How the Supreme Court decided on key public interest issues How the Supreme Court decided on key public interest issues By BULATLAT STAFF An independent judiciary is integral in a democratic society. After the ouster of former president Ferdinand E. Marcos, the framers of the 1987 Philippine Constitution included provisions guarding freedoms fought for by those who resisted the former dictator. While safeguards against another tyrannical rule have been inserted in the highest law of the land, administrations after Marcos...
Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → January → 30 → SPECIAL REPORT | All eyes on Supreme Court justices as they hear petitioners vs Anti-Terror Law SPECIAL REPORT | All eyes on Supreme Court justices as they hear petitioners vs Anti-Terror Law Illustration by DEE AYROSO On February 2, the 15 justices of the Supreme Court will hear the oral arguments on the much-contested Anti-Terror Law. The law is a priority of President Rodrigo Duterte, the reason why it was earmarked as urgent in Congress, and being fast-tracked, took only less than a year to be signed into law. It was...